A melodrama about a female lion tamer who has an extramarital relationship with a distinguished gentleman, and then moves in with him. When she later comes to regret her actions, her husband has already died of sorrow.
"Albertini is the champion of Italian athletic cinema. When he’s around, wrongs are righted by way of bold feats. The year 1919 saw him in superb shape. In Sansone e la ladra di atleti he is joined by another sort of hero: Costante Girardengo, the first great champion of Italian cycling." -...
Considered the first spaghetti-western ever. The director Roberto Roberti being the father of Sergio Leone along with member of the cast Bice Valerian, wife of the director and mother of Sergio Leone.
A shepherd, answering the question of some tourists why the ruined castle near which they were standing was named "Satan's Castle," tells them the story on the screen.
